František Peroutka

“ SUGAR INDUSTRY
The sugar industry is the most important: It brought the Bohemian agriculture in the nineteenth century from the extensive to the mixed farming, and helped to change the agricultural country into an industrial one.
In the 1902–03 sugar-campaign there were in Austria 208 mills with a production of 913.749 tons, in which Bohemia leads with its 136 mills (raw sugar manufacturies and refineries) using 2,355.145 tons of beet, which produced 606.852 tons of refined sugar. ”

“ The export of cattle from Bohemia is chiefly to the German states on its frontier and consists principally of milk-cows, young oxen and cattle for slaughter. Germany is also a large importer of eggs from Bohemia, the United Kingdom ranking next. ”

“ Nearly one third of Austrian paper industry is in Bohemia. In the year 1904 there was produced 685.574 tons of paper in Austria-Hungary, of which 147.720 tons, valued at 2,185.666, were exported. In that 175.836 tons represented the production of Bohemia.
Bohemia art-printing is at the highest degree of perfection. ”

“ The total export of beer from Austria-Hungary in the year 1904 was I04.547 tons, the bulk of which is brewed at Pilsen in Bohemia.
The Bohemian malting industry is very much developed and largely depends on export, as the home brewers produce a greater quantity than required by local consumption.
The total export of Austrian malt in 1904, in which Bohemia takes the prominent part, was 185.693 tons, valued at ₤ 2,114.274, the best European customers being Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark; besides large quantities for export to Brasil and Argentine. ”

“ The most important of the seven railway-carriage-works in the Austro-Hungarian Empire is in Prague, and is able to turn out 400 passenger carriages and 4000 good trucks or nearly one third of the total production of the Empire. ”

“ In the campaign of 1902–3 the number of distilleries in Bohemia increased to 245, with a production of 8,822.000 gallons, the total number of distilleries in Austria being 1257 and the production of spirit 30,435.812 gallons.
MACHINE INDUSTRY
The machine industry is one of the most developed in Bohemia, for, owing to local conditions, agricultural machinery and implements, also machinery for the sugar-industry, breweries, manufacture of spirits etc. are in great demand. ”

“ In the year 1904 the net produce of direct and indirect taxes in Bohemia amounted to ₤ 9,990.610, i. e. 25·5 per cent. of the total amount of state taxes received in Austria (₤ 39,123.955) .
In the taxes levied on real property (land, houses and other) the proportion is 22·1 per cent. and in personal income taxes 23·6 per cent.
In indirect taxes levied on beer, alcohol, sugar, wine, tobacco, mineral oil, the total amount of state income in Austria in 1904 was ₤ 26,706.854, to which Bohemia contributes £ 7,153.079 i. ”